America is Fucked

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    “Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger,” the columnist Fintan O’Toole wrote in the Irish Times. “But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity.”

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    • definitely.microkorg
    • I think this is the major thing. EU/UK/CAN JPN/AUS/NZ etc are feckless and neutered, US has been the lynch-pin for decades over a shared philosophical valueNairn
    • In a multi-polar world. the biggest bear gets the honey. As I see it now, China is the biggest bear. Whether that's a good or bad thing, I don't know.Nairn
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